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Hi there, first I hope I don't offend anyone since this is not meant to be a bash on anyone and it's just reflecting my personal feelings. But I assume I will get attacked anyways.

So I'm a 21 year old from Germany and we don't have many people with darker skin shades here but the few I know who also grew up here are just like any other German and talk/behave the exact same way as every other German and also seem to be perceived like a normal German. Maybe some people might naturally be kinda surprised by people having darker skin since it's more rare but I feel like people just perceive the different skin shade the same way they perceive different hair and eye color.

But from America I noticed that many people constantly call them "black" or "white" people and make a big thing about it as if they were a different race (and of course we scientifically know that there's only one human race). And it seems like many Americans identify with that so much that they separated and developed different cultures, behavior and way of talking solely based on their skin shade even though they're born and raised in the same country.

I know that there was slavery and segregation in America based on exactly this in the past but this is over and we're living in 2025 now which is why I wonder if this is still appropriate and contemporary.

Because to me personally this kinda feels like America is still stuck in those slavery/segregation times and it makes me feel very uncomfortable every time I hear this "black" and "white" stuff which is becoming constant since American media is everywhere. And I feel like this is also influencing people overseas like here where especially younger people in cities adopt this American mindset and I've even seen some using the N-Word etc.

When I grew up I never even had a concept of "different skin colors" because it just felt normal that people naturally look different and I still think like this about people and see it the same way as people having different hair and eye color but I can tell that these racist ideologies are doing something to me.

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[–] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretending to be colorblind doesn't make one colorblind. Americans have largely adopted an ideology of anti-racism. That is, acknowledge that racial biases exist and keep the door open for healthy conversations. You may try to ignore the fact that racial biases exist but doing so only perpetuates them.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We can disagree here. I'm convicned that colorblindness is the only way to approach this and we can see in practice that American approach doesn't work with your government throwing nazi salutes and banning words and constant race war looming over the entire country.

Maybe if you took the colorblind route you wouldn't be where you are right now.

[–] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The colorblind route is how we got here. It has allowed white supremacists to operate under our noses while the people pretending to be colorblind give them the benefit of the doubt when they do their racist dog whistles. You see it even now with some of my countrymen trying to say Elon is just being autistic when he throws out a Nazi salute. We've been taking the colorblind route for decades and the only way we've been able to fight back is to listen to the minorities that are here and build our communities around celebration of our differences. I'm not going to treat everyone the same because the reality is that we are not all the same. Everyone has their own quirks and experiences and neuroses. I treat everyone how they want to be treated because that is how I respect their individuality. Everyone has the potential to teach me important things I don't know.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

the colorblind route js how we got here.

Umm big doubt on that my dude. US ties identity to race so hard that colorblindness is not even a term in your social dictionary and thats why you're all so mad when people call you out cause you simple don't even understand what a colorblind mentality is.

[–] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The definition of color blindness I'm using is ignoring race and treating everyone the same in spite of it. If you're using a different definition, tell me what it is and I can engage you based on that. If you're just going to be condescending to me, I might as well just not engage with you at all.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago

Thats fair, have a good day then 👋